China pollutes.  A lot.  Chinese citizens are victims of the pollution.  So are we. The environmental degradation of trade is a very big, untold story.  But it is increasingly being told.

Every smokestack factory we outsource to China increases CO-2 emissions because U.S. companies produce products with 8 times less pollution per unit of production.  Thus, outsourcing to China is like exporting nuclear waste, only worse, because China's waste gets distributed across the Pacific into California.  And the waste expands, getting eight times bigger than it was here.

The New York Times today has a major multimedia layout on China pollution.  The only picture they are missing is the satellite images of China's brown cloud blowing across the Pacific.  See it  at the NASA website.

Here are some of the images from the NY Times slide show.  They are truly stunning.  This is the pollution we cause when buying at Wal-Mart.

1.   Chinese steel is as suspect as the food.  But it has not hit the press yet.  6,000 bridges in China are deemed unsafe.  The Oakland Bay bridge is reputedly being built with Chinese steel.  This is how they make it.  They drag the molten steel out the furnace door onto the ground. 

Hit "read more" for more photos from China's industrial complex. 

Here is how they mine and store the coal to make the electricity for their booming economy.

And here is the water runoff from coal storage.  The water is black with coal dust.

Here is the safety conditions of coal miners.

And here is a cement factory.

International trade, without enforced rules, is great.  Right Henry Paulson?  What spin do you have on this?

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